Jul 11

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Jul , 2018 Week: 28\ Day:

86004 Today: H 77° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Nearest Lightning:  8.1 miles away

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[2003]   Record Low: 40°[1979]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Adventure is worthwhile. Aesop

Harper’s Index

60

Miutes for which a food-storage container must resist mauling to be designated ‘bear resistant’

2/3

Portion of containers tested by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee that bears are able to open

Observances This Week

7^th-14^th

Creative Maladjustment Week Link
8^th-14^th

National Farriers Week
Sports Cliché Week

Observances for Today

Bowdler's Day
Cheer up the Lonely Day
Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day  Link
Day of The Five Billion Link
Make Your Own Sundae Day
National Blueberry Muffins Day

National Rainier Cherries Day Link
Slurpee Day or 7-11's Birthday Link
World Population Day
Night of Nights: 12   (Maritime Radio)  Link
Simplicity Day: 12 Link

National Blueberry Muffins Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1656 The first Quakers to land in America (Boston), Englishwomen Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, are arrested and jailed by the Puritan colonial government. After 5 years imprisonment they are deported back to Barbados

1700’s                                         

1735 Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant 'planet' from the Sun for the last time before 1979

1750 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.

1798 US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress

1800’s                                         

1804 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

1818 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"

1864 Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington, D.C.

1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city

1892 US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1895 First ever automobile race: Paris to Bordeaux 1,178 km in 48 hours, 48 minutes

1900’s                                         

1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport

1905 Black intellectuals and activists lead by W.E.B. Du Bois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement

1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)

1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens.

1934 FDR became 1st US President to travel through Panama Canal

1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens

1937 Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY

1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets

1960 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days

1969 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon

1977 US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr

1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)

1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74

1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor

2000’s

2011 Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846

2012 Steve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers

2014 The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza

2015 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house

2015 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams becomes oldest winner in Open era (33) beating Garbiñe Muguruza 6-4, 6-4

My Rambling Thoughts

Our fantastic monsoon continues. We have already had two storms today and it is still very cloudy. Water is Life.

Headed out early to get some shopping done for essentials. Made it home dry between rain storms.

So happy to see that all the young soccer players and their coach have made it out safely. What a great story.

No confetti after the announcement for the new Supreme Court Justice. Darn. However, the appointment did set off political fireworks throughout the nation.  I get that much is about politics, not the man. I also believe that a President under investigation should not be able to appoint anyone to any Federal Court.

OMG…Trump has pardoned the two guys who went to prison for starting a fire. The Bundy family took over the area on Federal land and had a 41-day standoff to protest their prison sentence. Now everyone is free.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86- Tab Hunter, American actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust), born in NYC, (d. 2018)

@86- E. B. White, American writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 1985)

84- Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer(American Gigolo), born in Piacenza, Italy

@80- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (D) (1825-1829), born in Braintree, Massachusetts (d. 1848)

70’s

@75- Eugene "Gene" Evans, American actor (My Friend Flicka, Johnny Ringo, Alamo), born in Holbrook, Arizona (d. 1998) heart faiure

@70- Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare (d. 1825)

60’s

@65- Yul Brynner, Russian-Swiss actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments), born in Primorsky Krai, Russia (d. 1985) lung cancer

65- Mindy Sterling, actress (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)

65- Leon Spinks, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic gold 1976), born in St. Louis

50’s

59- Richie Sambora, American guitarist (Bon Jovi) and boyfriend of Cher and Heather Locklear, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey

@54- Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (1306-1329) and national hero, born in Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire (d. 1329) leprosy

@54- Alfred Binet, French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (Binet–Simon test), born in Nice, France (d. 1911)

51- Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality

40’s

44- Lil' Kim [Kimberly Denise Jones], American rapper, born in Brooklyn

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-2007 Claudia Alt ‘Lady Bird’ Johnson, First Lady @99-@99-2008 Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor

@90-2006 Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)

80’s

@82-1989 Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen acting great (Hamlet, Rebecca), dies at 82

50’s

@56-2015 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter), cancer

@50-1987 Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), AIDS

30’s

@38-1937 George Gershwin, American composer (An American in Paris), brain tumor 

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼